bribe
noun
money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc..
unbribed
-
a word derived from
bribe.
Example Sentences
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After tapping many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
No—all that's worth a wish—a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
After tapping many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
Speaker Foster said that the whole unbribed intellect of Ireland was against the Union.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
"There is no more mercy in them," said another of the banditti, "than in an unbribed sheriffs officer."
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
